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Michel Burnier, a sociologist, interviews twenty scientists from various disciplines, about the future of science and culture.

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19 of the series is dedicated to Henri Atlan, a biologist and a philosopher, a director of studies at the EHESS.
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Michel Burnier, a sociologist, interviews twenty scientists from various disciplines about the future of science and culture. The number 13 of this series is dedicated to Basarab Nicolescu, a physicist and president of the International Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies. He works in the laboratory for high energies of the university Paris VI, on quantum physics, especially on quarks physics.

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1973
Basarab Nicolescu
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Michel Burnier, a sociologist, interviews twenty researchers from various disciplines about the future of science and culture. The number 14 of this series is dedicated to René Passer, an emeritus professor of political economy at the Sorbonne (Paris I) and the honorary president of Attac (Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens).

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1916
René Passet
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Michel Burnier, a sociologist, interviews twenty scientists from various disciplines about the future of science and culture. The number 7 of this series is dedicated to Pierre-Henry Gouyon, a biologist, professor at the University of Orsay and at the Ecole Polytechnique. He evokes his researches in genetics and interactions between this discipline and ecology.

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1914
Pierre-Henri Gouyon
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Michel Burnier, a sociologist, interviews twenty scientists from various disciplines about the future of science and culture. The number 5 of this series is dedicated to Emile Poulat, a CNRS senior researcher, an EHESS director of studies and a founding member of the “Groupe de sociologie des religions” (Group for sociology of religions).

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1912
Emile Poulat
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Michel Burnier, a sociologist, interviews twenty scientists from various disciplines about the future of science and culture. The number 10 of this series is dedicated to Jean-Jacques Salomon, a philosopher and professor at the French National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. He is also in charge of the division for science policies at the OECD.

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1911
Jean-Jacques Salomon
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Michel Burnier, a sociologist, has interviewed twenty scientists from various disciplines about the future of science and culture. The number 9 of this series is dedicated to Etienne Klein, a physicist, a specialist in materials sciences and in quantum theory, and an epistemology professor at the Ecole Centrale of Paris.

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1992
Etienne Klein

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